YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website, after Google Search.

It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. YouTube is an American global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.

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